October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and most of us know someone who has been affected by this horrible disease. I feel very honored to have been hired by the San Diego chapter of The Komen Foundation to provide some comic relief at their sold-out fundraiser. I donned a wig and a larger-than-life character with my improv cohorts, and together we presented a series of sketches and improvised scenes to over 350 people.

Before the event began, we showed our fierceness.

The venue was so huge, we had to be projected onto screens to be seen in the back row!

We got suggestions from the audience, and improvised a series of scenes.

My character was a retired beauty queen who felt that the best way to prevent breast cancer was to smudge her breasts with a smudge stick. She also bragged about her ability to pop bubble wrap to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.